William Rind, Jr. was apprenticed to Thomas Nicolson, printer in Richmond.
William was 17 years of age in 1784.
HBG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowe, Linda" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Clementine Rind
> It is true that there isn't much documentation for Clementina Rind before
> she and her husband William came to Williamsburg from Maryland. However,
> local records here do give us the names of the five Rind children (several
> from the Bruton Parish Register), care of the orphaned sons by the
> Williamsburg Lodge of Masons, the fate of daughter Maria Rind, and the
> fact that one if not two of the Rind sons were printers. Journals of the
> House of Burgesses detail voting for the position of public printer and
> the York County records contain Rind estate information and indebtedness.
>
> Linda Rowe
> Historian
> Department of Training and Historical Research
> Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger P. Mellen
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Clementine Rind
>
> There are very few primary sources that I know of for Clementina Rind
> (note spelling), except the newspapers that she published and her
> obituary in the competing newspapers.
>
> There are some secondary sources:
>
> Martha Joanne King, "Making an Impression: Women Printers in the
> Southern Colonies in the Revolutionary Era" (Ph.D. diss., The College of
> William and Mary, December, 1992).
>
>
> Roger Mellen, "The Origins of a Free Press in Prerevolutionary Virginia:
> Creating a Culture of Political Dissent" Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen
> Press, (c)2009.
>
> Mellen, "An Expanding Public Sphere:Women and Print in Colonial
> Virginia; 1736-1776"
> Publication: /American Journalism/ : the publication of the American
> Journalism Historians Association. 27, no. 4, (2010): 7
> Publisher: [Conway, AR] : American Journalism Historians Association
>
> Feel free to have your colleague contact me off-list for more information.
>
> Roger Mellen, Ph.D.
> New Mexico State University
>
> On 3/16/11 6:35 AM, Michelle Krowl wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> A colleague recently came across a woman named Clementine Rind (hopefully
>> I have the spelling right), who briefly published one of the Virginia
>> Gazettes in Williamsburg and was an official printer for the government.
>> My colleague wondered if there are good sources of information on Rind,
>> especially any manuscript collections, so I turn to the experts in
>> colonial Virginia history for guidance!
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Michelle Krowl
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